• editions of the Babylonian Talmud despite there not being Babylonian Talmud gemara. Mishnah Talmud Birnbaum, Philip (1975). "Tractates". A Book of Jewish...
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    tractates (Hebrew: מסכתות קטנות, masechtot qetanot) are essays from the Talmudic period or later dealing with topics about which no formal tractate exists...
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    37 out of the 63 tractates of the Mishnah. In particular: The Jerusalem Talmud covers all the tractates of Zeraim, while the Babylonian Talmud covers...
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    the Babylonian Talmud. There is however Jerusalem Talmud on all the tractates in Seder Zeraim. There is also a Tosefta for this tractate. The Jewish religious...
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    Megillah (Hebrew: מסכת מגילה, lit. 'Tractate Scroll') is a tractate in Seder Moed of the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. It deals with laws and stories...
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    "Sabbath") is the first tractate of Seder Moed ("Order of Appointed Times") of the Mishnah and of the Talmud. The tractate deals with the laws and practices...
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    the name of a tractate of the Talmud, located in Nezikin, the fourth Order of the Talmud dealing with damages. The main topic of the tractate is laws pertaining...
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  • Daf Yomi (category Talmud)
    his lectures. Other study cycles under Torah study#Study cycles List of Talmudic tractates Goldman (2000), p. 264. Slutsky, Carolyn (30 November 1999). "Daf...
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    completion of study of a Talmudic tractate. Hadran is an Aramaic word used in the Talmud which literally means "we have returned." It is the first word of a short...
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    Gemara: The Essence of the Talmud, myjewishlearning.com See summary of per-tractate coverage: Birnbaum, Philip (1975). "Tractates". A Book of Jewish Concepts...
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  • Succah, Brachos and others. Shorter tractates are usually chosen as Bekius tractates. The mesivta has a five-year cycle of Biyun mesechtos to finish. The five...
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    example under Yeshivas Ner Yisroel § Cycle of Masechtos (Tractates of the Talmud). Sometimes tractates dealing with an upcoming religious holiday are studied...
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  • Bava (category Surnames of Italian origin)
    third of the three Talmudic tractates Bava Kamma, the second of the three Talmudic tractates Bava Metzia, the first of the three Talmudic tractates Bava...
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  • Jerusalem Talmud; it also has Tosefta. There is no Gemara in the Babylonian Talmud for this tractate or indeed for any of the tractates of this order of the...
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    commentators) almost always refer to later, post-Talmudic writers of rabbinic glosses on Biblical and Talmudic texts. The Midr'she halakha, Mishnah, and Tosefta...
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  • glosses on other Talmudic tractates also. Flourished in the 12th and 13th centuries. Author of tosafot to several tractates; those to Sotah are among...
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    Tzvi Kushelevsky (category People of Lithuanian-Jewish descent)
    collection of lectures on Shas Sha'arei Bina, a work on the laws of Shabbat, Jerusalem 2012 Toras Tzvi on various tractates of the Talmud. Volumes published...
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    Gemara (category Talmud)
    understanding of the Mishna's full meaning. In the Talmud, a sugya is presented as a series of responsive hypotheses and questions – with the Talmudic text as...
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    Tosafot (redirect from Tosafot of Evreux)
    Tosafot ha-Rid on a few tractates. The Piske Tosafot (decisions of the Tosafot) are printed at the end of each tractate. Complete sets of the Tosafot ha-Rosh...
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    Isaac Alfasi (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of June 2024)
    three Talmudic orders Moed, Nashim and Nezikin as well as the tractates of Berachot and Chulin - 24 tractates in all. Alfasi transcribed the Talmud's halakhic...
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    Conference of Synagogue Youth (1990), p6. Talmud, Tractate Megillah 14a Why Isn't the Book of Daniel Part of the Prophets? from Chabad.org, footnote 2 Talmud Megilla...
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  • Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement were used primarily by ancient Israelites and appear frequently within the Hebrew Bible as well as in later...
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    Saul Lieberman (category Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
    or, among some of his students, the Gra"sh (Gaon Rabbeinu Shaul), was a rabbi and a Talmudic scholar. He served as Professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological...
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  • Menachem HaMeiri (category Grammarians of Hebrew)
    Talmudist. Though most of his expansive commentary, spanning 35 tractates of the Talmud, was not publicly available until the turn of the 19th century, it...
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  • Brisker method (category Talmud)
    of learning. In Brisker yeshivas, the tractates studied deviate from the tractates popular in most yeshivas. Most yeshivas learn the Talmudic laws of...
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    influence on establishing the correct text of the Talmud. Up to and including his age, texts of each Talmudic tractate were copied by hand and circulated in...
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    involved. The tractate has no existing Gemara, although commentary on the procedure appears in the Gemara for other tractates of the Talmud. According to...
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  • HaShanah) - 1) [The holiday of] Rosh HaShanah; lit. head of the year. 2) (Talmud) Tractate Rosh Hashanah; a tractate of the Talmud רֹאשׁ הַמֶּמְשָׁלָה, רה״מ...
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    Bava Kamma (category Talmud)
    first of a series of three Talmudic tractates in the order Nezikin ("Damages") that deal with civil matters such as damages and torts. The other two of these...
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  • Nachman Kahana (category Kohanim writers of Rabbinic literature)
    מנוחות - Restful Waters) a Hebrew elucidation of the Tosafot commentary on several tractates of the Talmud. He has also been cited as collaborating on the...
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